Gordon Corera (born 1974) is a British

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and

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. He is the

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's Security Correspondent and specializes in

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Early life

Corera was born in London; his father was from the state of

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in southern

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and his mother is German. The family has a home near

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, in the state of

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in western India, which he says he has a deep affection for, and visits regularly.

Education

Corera was educated at

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, an

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for boys in

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in northwest

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, followed by St Peter's College at the

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, where he studied

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,BBC press office biography
followed by graduate studies in

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.Biography from the BBC's ''Today'' programme

Life and career

Corera worked on the re-election campaign of President

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. He joined the BBC in 1997 as a researcher and later became a reporter. He has worked on Radio 4's ''

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'', BBC2's ''

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'', and worked in the US as the BBC's

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correspondent and as an analyst for the BBC's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election. In 2001 he became the foreign reporter for Radio 4's ''

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'' programme. He was appointed BBC News' security correspondent in 2004. Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 programme ''MI6: A Century in the Shadows'', a three-part history of Britain's

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.''MI6: A Century in the Shadows''
BBC website

Books

Corera wrote ''The Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service'' (Orion 2011) about

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, and ''Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network'' (September 2006) , about

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and Pakistan's nuclear programme. He wrote ''Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies'', also ''Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage''. Corera wrote the introduction to

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's book '' Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story''. Corera most recently wrote ''Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putins Spies''. The book covers the FBI and CIA investigation into the Russian Illegals programs.

References

External links

Audio discussion with Gordon Corera
ABC New South Wales, Australia
Journalisted - Articles by Gordon Corera
{{DEFAULTSORT:Corera, Gordon Living people Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford BBC newsreaders and journalists British male journalists People educated at University College School Harvard University alumni 1974 births British people of Tamil descent British people of Portuguese descent